How Internet in India Will Look in 2020: 12 Exciting Statistics!

Indian Internet traffic has been growing at the fastest pace globaly for 3 years running, thanks to huge influx of new internet users, primarily Smartphone users. And this growth will be continuing in near future as India still has a large population who have yet not had the taste of Internet.

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index too points to the fact that India’s Internet growth will see further acceleration in years to come. The report states that the IP traffic in India will grow 4-fold in 2020, with video being the main trigger and almost 69% of all networked devices will be mobile-connected in 2020.

In India, smartphones will account for 37% (702.1 million) of all networked devices in 2020, compared to 18% (239.4 million) in 2015.

It also states that the average mobile connection speed will grow 3-fold from 2015 to 2020,reaching 3 Mbps in 2020.

The report mentions that the demand for higher video resolutions‚ more bandwidth and processing speed will increase the use of internet to 6 fold in 2020 with a growth of 45%. Another growth area will be in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication‚ which is expected to grow 12-fold ‚ accounting to 63% in mobile data traffic.

At a global level, total public Wi-Fi hotspots (including home spots) will grow 7X from 2015 (64 million) to 2020 (432 million) and home spots will grow from 57 million (2015) to 423 million (2020). People will have 26.3 billion networked devices by 2020 and globally smartphones will account to 21% (5.6 billion) of all networked devices compared to 19% (3.0 billion) in 2015.

Interesting Indian Internet Traffic Highlights

Indian Internet traffic in 2020 will be equivalent to 249x the volume of the entire Indian Internet in 2005

IP traffic will grow 4-fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth of 33%

IP traffic will reach 5.6 Exabytes per month in 2020, up from 1.4 Exabytes per month in 2015

Internet traffic will grow 4.4 fold from 2015 to 2020, a compound annual growth of 34%